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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

The Distant Librarian: How to make Google Scholar work for the distance students

Monday, November 22, 2004How to make Google Scholar work for the distance students

OK, I haven't had a chance to try it from off campus, but we're introducing Google Scholar to our EZProxy server in the hopes that if we authenticate our students first, they will be able to access the content we have licensed when using Google Scholar. Of course this would mean the student would have to come to our library page first to go in to Scholar through our door. Here's an idea though. What if libraries were able to work with Google to provide them with some proxy information, and what if Google allowed folks to use their appropriate proxy info right from the Google Scholar page? Here are some images I slapped together to illustrate what I have in mind...

I posted a comment on this thread, nice start on trying to get a handle on working with Google to enable transparent access to available "local" resources.. perhaps something like "My Google Scholar" where we can customize the application to our local circumstances, or our available options...